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Notes: 1vs1, HE,
Filled with nonsense, filled with nonsense, filled with nonsense (important things must be repeated three times).Tags: Power couple, supernatural (gods, ghosts and spirits), mystery, light angst, much handholding, mixed modern and historical setting.Main characters: 谢白 Xie Bai (MC), 殷无书 Yin Wushu (ML)
“Lived too long and accidentally became twisted” gong x “Lived too close to the twisted person and ended up twisted too” sickly, fragile shou [misleading]There was a schedule posted on the door to the forensic clinic located in a corner of Kanghe Hospital’s third floor:
Mondays, Wednesdays: Municipal Public Security Bureau;
Tuesdays, Thursdays: District Public Security Bureau
Of course, this was just what an ordinary human could perceive. In actuality, there was another sentence below…
It stated —— The Yin Ke is present every month on the 15th. Latecomers will not be accommodated; seek elsewhere for services.On the 15th of a certain month, Yin Wushu stood on a black rock by the side of a bridge. From afar, he remarked to Xie Bai: “Ever since you came to live in this damned place, you’ve never let me enter.”
Xie Bai gripped the side of the door, his face stony. “Are you done talking?”
Yin Wushu: “For good or bad, I painstakingly raised you for over a hundred years.”
Xie Bai responded coldly: “So?”
Yin Wushu: “Slam the door with a little less force?”
Xie Bai wordlessly lifted a hand and slammed the door shut with a “boom”. The stone bridge shook with the sheer force of it.
Yin Wushu: “...”
If you've read and enjoyed Musuli's Panguan, give her earlier work Yin Ke a try for its mixed historical and modern setting, a lying Shifu, long separations, and SO MUCH handholding!! It's short, it's sweet, and full of Musuli's signature snark and banter.
It may come off as a prototype or early draft of Panguan at first, but the CP definitely have a flavour of their own...
And I guarantee that there's fewer knives :)
Characters
Yin Wushu - 殷无书
ML, gong. Immortal, but neither god, human nor ghost. A manifestation of pure yang energy.
Top of everyone's blacklist. Boss of the Taixuan Dao, which oversees the living yao and spirits of the Zhifu Lingdong Realm.
Heartless. Literally. Borderline germaphobe and mysophobe.
Chronic liar. Cannot trust the things he says whatsoever.
Xie Bai - 谢白
MC, shou. Titular Yin Ke of the novel, which is a position charged with overseeing the deceased yao and spirits of the Zhifu Lingdong Realm.
2nd place on everyone's blacklist.
Savage and stone-faced.
Distrusts everyone and everything in existence. With one exception only.